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Dilylah Johnson, Gabriella Holt and Logan Haskins won the Congressional App Challenge in Indiana’s First Congressional District.
Johnson, Holt and Haskins used Block Code to create their winning application, “Feline Frenzy.” Their app is a game designed to raise awareness about animal shelters and inspire people to adopt pets. Players help a stray cat named Whiskers jump over trash cans to collect points.
Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced Dilylah Johnson, Gabriella Holt, and Logan Haskins of Lowell High School are the winning team of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge in Indiana’s First Congressional District. Dilylah, Gabriella, and Logan used Block Code to create their winning application, “Feline Frenzy.” Their application is a game designed to raise awareness about animal shelters and inspire people to adopt pets where players help a stray cat named Whiskers jump over trash cans to collect points.
A team of three Lowell High School students were recently named winners of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge for Indiana's First Congressional District.
Dilylah Johnson, Gabriella Holt and Logan Haskins were recognized for their winning application "Feline Frenzy", according to statement from the office of U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland.
Congressman Frank Mrvan is opposed to the potential temporary freeze on federal spending on grants and other forms of assistance.
President Trump signed an executive order to temporarily withhold further spending on things like grants and loans to review those programs in an effort to cut wasteful spending.
A court has overturned the executive order until ruling whether such action is a violation of federal law.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-1st, on Thursday, announced the House Appropriations Subcommittees that he will serve on in the 119th Congress.
Mrvan will serve on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science.
Congressman Frank J. Mrvan announced that the House Democratic Caucus has elected him to serve on the House Appropriations Committee.
The House Democratic Caucus elected U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan to serve on the House Appropriations Committee.
Mrvan thanked his colleagues for electing him to the committee so he can advocate for Northwest Indiana and the nation.
“I have sought this position since my first day in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Mrvan said in a press release. “I look forward to ensuring that the federal government has the necessary resources, oversight and direction to promote our national security, grow our economy and create more work and wealth for everyone.”
Northwest Indiana once again has a representative on the powerful U.S. House committee that annually decides how to spend trillions of dollars in federal government funds.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, was appointed Tuesday to the House Appropriations Committee at the start of his third term after seeking a seat on the federal spending panel since first winning election to the House in 2020.
Northwest Indiana's representative in the U.S. House pledged Friday to remain focused on the issues most important to his nearly 800,000 constituents living in Lake, Porter and northwest LaPorte counties.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, said he considers the oath of office he took on the first day of his third, two-year term, to be "a sacred trust with the constituents of Indiana's First Congressional District."
In that vein, Mrvan said he commits to "faithfully performing my responsibilities to uphold the United States Constitution."
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, said he will draw from the experience of his father, Frank E. Mrvan Jr., who worked in the Indiana State Senate as a Democrat amid growing Republican majorities.
Mrvan, who was sworn in Friday to start his third term, said as he enters the 119th Congress it will be his first time in the U.S. House with a Republican president and a slim Republican majority.